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This open access book offers a critical sociolegal examination of the rights of people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, with a focus on the determination of their legal capacity in court and the wider consequences for their self-determination. Drawing on a research project undertaken in Portugal, the book features six stories and court cases of disabled people, as well as reflections on lessons learned from legal systems around the world where reforms on Article 12 have occurred. The lived-experience narratives are used to challenge the court sentences, showing how particular social contexts and power relations, institutional arrangements, societal reactions, and representations continue to hinder the realisation of human rights. An insightful analysis of the tensions arising between human rights norms and the principles enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, this is a timely resource to inform legal, social, and disability studies scholars and students, policy makers and activists, and guide needed change.
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Keywords
- Capacity Contract
- Citizenship
- disability justice
- Disability Studies
- human rights theory
- Intellectual Disabilities
- Legal Capacity
- open access
- Psychosocial Disabilities
- Sociology of Human Rights
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMC Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPR Regional, state and other local government
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights
- thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAF Systems of law::LAFD Systems of law: civil codes / civil law
- thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNB Private or civil law: general
- UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-05969-7Editions